. Wife no. 19, or, The story of a life in bondage : being a complete exposé of Mormonism, and revealing the sorrows, sacrifices and sufferings of women in polygamy . f the onedearest to her. Day after day, as they continued their toilsome journey,her strength declined, and it was evident, even to the eyesof strangers, that she was dying. Her husband, however,saw nothing, was troubled with no anxieties. He was toomuch absorbed in his love for the two girls, whose soulshe proposed to save, to have any time or thought to sparefor his dying wife. The days lengthened into weeks, andstill the lamp o
. Wife no. 19, or, The story of a life in bondage : being a complete exposé of Mormonism, and revealing the sorrows, sacrifices and sufferings of women in polygamy . f the onedearest to her. Day after day, as they continued their toilsome journey,her strength declined, and it was evident, even to the eyesof strangers, that she was dying. Her husband, however,saw nothing, was troubled with no anxieties. He was toomuch absorbed in his love for the two girls, whose soulshe proposed to save, to have any time or thought to sparefor his dying wife. The days lengthened into weeks, andstill the lamp of life burned lower, while the love that hadoutlived fait!\ and hope was yet strong enougii to torture LAST HOURS OF A DYING WIFE. 317 her with vain longings to hear again the tender words thatwere never spoken now, and to lean, in her mortal weak-ness, on the arm that she, so short a time ago, had fondlyhoped would be her support, even down to the brink ofdeath. It is easy to say of love unworthily bestowed, — I would pluck it from my bosom,Though my heart were at tlie root; but many a wronged and forsaken wife could tell you thatthese are only idle Broken-Heartkd. Many may wonder if the dying girls sister had no com-punction, no remorse for the part she was playing in thistragedy. None; for so completely was she carried awayby the fanaticism wdth which she had been inspired, that sheactually believed she was doing God service in tramplingon the holiest feelings of her own nature, and inflictingupon her sister the most cruel wrong that one woman cansuffer at the hands of another. The wear} journey w^as ended at length, and the w^an-derers reached the Valley which was henceforth to be their 3l8 AN aristocrat. — OH 1 home. The wife lived only just to enter the city, of whichshe once fondly dreamed as a heaven upon earth. Fromthe Zion of her earthly hopes she passed on to the true Zion,where the mercy and love of a God kinder than the oneshe had been taught to worshi
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